Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-14 Thread Michael Busboom
Hi. When I started this thread, I wasn't thinking of the key click feature. Actually, I would never use it. However, in order to help the accessibility people at Apple, would it be fair to say that the key clicks you envisage would sound like the ones that the Mac gives us when we enter

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-14 Thread Scott Howell
How about no sound at all. Surely you will know when your pressing the keys. THe sound would become distracting and the entire point is silence not noise. On Aug 14, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: No! no! no! that might confused the heck out of me. I would not want it sounding like

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-14 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actually in my case some letters don't press if I don't' press hard enough so in my case I leave keyboard echo on so I know if I mistyped something cause I though the letter pressed. S On Aug 14, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Scott Howell wrote: How about no sound at all. Surely you will know when your

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-14 Thread Scott Howell
Perhaps so, but I would certainly hope if this were a feature, it also included a silent option. On Aug 14, 2010, at 6:15 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Actually in my case some letters don't press if I don't' press hard enough so in my case I leave keyboard echo on so I know if I mistyped

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-14 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh yeah I'm sure it would. Make it a toggle and we can have the best of both worlds. Take care all. S On Aug 14, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Perhaps so, but I would certainly hope if this were a feature, it also included a silent option. On Aug 14, 2010, at 6:15 PM, Sarah

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Thurman
exactly! jut have them add it to the typing echo place in the verbosity settings. a really fast click would be nice as laptop keyboard are very quiet. those of us who learned to type on an IBM selectric or other electric typewriters before we had computers would appreciate it.. wnat t make it

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-13 Thread Sarah Alawami
lol. tha'ts tprobably why I type very hard, eather that or it's my piano playing that causes me to type hard. lol! On Aug 13, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Michael Thurman wrote: exactly! jut have them add it to the typing echo place in the verbosity settings. a really fast click would be nice as

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Thurman
this brings an idea to mind. I used to have an atari st that had a very soft click or chirp when keys were pressed I wonder if we could get a very very light click sound that would sound on each keypress. to be useful ti would have to be very quiet, preferably adjustable, or let you select

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
What purpose would this serve? On Aug 5, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Michael Thurman wrote: this brings an idea to mind. I used to have an atari st that had a very soft click or chirp when keys were pressed I wonder if we could get a very very light click sound that would sound on each keypress. to

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello Michael, Although I do not know how this feature would help, who am I to say that it wouldn't. There are a couple of things, however, that one must keep in mind. 1. There is already some feedback from keyboard entry in the form of tones. For example when Caps Lock is activated, you

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
I agree. Although the chirp is a good one I too asan end user would feel overwhelmed whenit comes to noises. S On Aug 5, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: Hello Michael, Although I do not know how this feature would help, who am I to say that it wouldn't. There are a couple of

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Thurman
well of course you could turn it on or off I'm thinking of a slight click nt abeep or chirp and anyone could turn the sound on or off at will :) On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: I agree. Although the chirp is a good one I too asan end user would feel overwhelmed whenit comes

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-08-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
yeah true. Hmm I dunno. Maybe a click not a cherp, like a typing sound maybe? On Aug 5, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: well of course you could turn it on or off I'm thinking of a slight click nt abeep or chirp and anyone could turn the sound on or off at will :) On Aug 5, 2010, at

Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-07-31 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello everyone, Before submitting this feature request to the accessibility team at Apple, I was curious if (1) it is implemented already and (2) what others thought. I work in a multilingual context daily. I am very satisfied with my text-to-speech software, too. However, I occasionally have

Re: Suggestion for making a great VO feature even better.

2010-07-31 Thread Scott Howell
Please file this as a request. I think this is a very good idea and one that needs to be implemented. I for one would like it and I will also make the request again. :) Thanks, On Jul 31, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: Hello everyone, Before submitting this feature request to the